Button-hole



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8 F. BEIERMEISTER, Jr.

BUTTON HOLE. No. 291,486. Patented Jan. 8,1884.

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FREDR-IOK BEIERMEISTER, JR, OF TROY, NEXV YORK.

BUTTON-HOLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,486, dated January 8, 1881,

I Application file-d June 13, 1883.,1X model.)

.T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I; F. BEIERMEISTER, J r.,

Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Button-Holes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, that will enable others My invention relates to improvements in button-holes for collars, cuffs, and wearingapparel in general; and it consists in providing an elongated button-hole with a stay-piece tovary its utilized length.

The object of my invention is to provide in wearing-apparel button-holes that will permit of adjusting a garment to different sizes.

Figure 1 is a plan view, showing my improved button-hole applied to one end of a collar. V Fig. 2 is a plan view of same collar end with stay-piece removed. Fig. 3 is aplan view of same, showing the loose end of the stay folded back upon the body of the stay.

Fig. 4 is aplan view of the stay detached from the collar.

1 Many garment-s adapted to receive or be attached to other garments by means of buttons are made and supplied to the trade in sizes.

cuffs. is, a No. 15 collar is fifteen inches long, and the This is a special feature in shirts, collars, and The sizes vary by half an inchthat next larger size is No. 155-, which is fifteen and one-half inches long, and the next smaller size is No. 14%, which is fourteen and one-half inches long. It frequently happens that a shirt neckband or collar will stretch or shrink in laundering, and a collar which once fitted a certain sized shirt will not fit after being laundered. It is either too long or too short. It is very desirable, therefore, that both the shirt and the collar should be adjustable as to length. It is-for the same reason desirable that detachable cuffs and shirt wristbands should be adjustable as to length. I am able to provide thedesired adjustabilityby means of my improved button-hole.

In Fig. 2 of the drawings, 0 represents an elongated buttonho'le in the end of a collarband yan'd, in Fig. 4., G represents a stay-piece provided with a slit, H. The stay-piece is stitched or otherwise attached to the collarband, as shown by the dotted lines J in Fig. 1, andin such a position that the slit H corresponds with one end of the bottom-hole G.

Theslgitand button-hole may be button-hole stitched together through the stay and collar-' band, so that the slitis integral with that part of the button-hole. The stay is also stitched transversely to the band and at a point about midway between the two ends of the buttonhole 0, so as to leave a loose end, I, of thestay. The other end of the collar-band is provided with a button-hole and stay-piece, G, made in the same manner. lVhen itis desired to wear the collar at its smaller size, the parts are left as shown in Fig. 1, and the button inserted through the stay; but, if the larger size is desired, the loose'end I of the stay is turned or folded over upon the stay, as-shown in Fig. 3, and the button inserted in the other end of button-hole 0 without passing through the stay. Thus two different sizes are obtained in the same collar, and the resisting-points, as well as every portion of the button-holes, are inthe same line of draft, which permits of a narrow band, and does not affect the set or fit of the collar, except in size or length. The stay-piece may be of any desired shape or material, provided it is stitched or attached to the goods'on both sides of button-hole 0, so as to divide the latter in two parts, and be folded from one part toward or upon theother. The slit H mayextend any desired distance beyond the transverse row of stitching shown in Fig. 1 as passing through its end into the loose part I of the stay, as it need not extend so far as said row of stitching.

I have shown the button-hole somewhat exaggerated in size for the purpose of illustration, and in such a way that the variation in size would be more than one trade size; but any desired amount of variation can be produced. For example, if we wished toconstruct a collar which could be varied by onemo half a size, or one-fourth of an inch in length,

we would extend the loose end I, Fig. 1, of the stay out over the button-hole O, and extend the slit H in the same direction until its eyelet or' resisting end is within one-eighth of an inch of the resisting end of the button-hole G. Then, by releasing attaching-button from the stay-piece, folding the stay-piece back,and inserting the button in the eyelet end of the button-hole O, the length of the collar would be varied j ust one-fourth of an inchone-eighth of an inch at each end-or one-halfa tradesize. It is evident, therefore, that the stay piece or attachment may be constructed to Vary the size of a garment from one size to another, or by any fractional part of a size.

The attachment may be formed from one or moreof the band-plies, or may be inserted at its fixed end between the plies.

I am aware that neckbands of shirts and analogous articles have been made with buttonholes in different vertical planes to adapt them to wearers necks and wrists of different sizes. This is not my invention, broadly, as my improvement consists more especially in the novel means for accomplishing the result hereinbe fore stated. Therefore 2; The combination,with a collar or other wearing article formed with an elongated button-hole of a short stay-piece formed with a horizontal slit of a size to receive a collar-button, or the like, and of a length less than the saidbutton-hole, and fastened on opposite sides of the button-hole and at points lying between straight lines of the respective ends of the said button-hole,substantially as shown, and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 11th day of June, 1883.

GEO. A. MosHER, JOHN T. BooTH. 

